This year’s annual BookExpo once again grappled with technology. Tina Brown doesn’t think much of the digital book giveaway. “Giving an author’s book away for nothing on the Web as a way to market books seems a mirage to me. All it does is feed the hungry angles of journalists and bloggers who plunder it without any of the author’s context or nuance and makes the reader feel there is nothing new to learn from the genuine article when it finally limps on its weary way to a book shop.”